Hua Yan

Chinese · 1682–1756 · Painter

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Chinese artist (1682-1756); CBDB ID = 74523

Born 1682, Shanghang CountyDied 1756, HangzhouOccupation PainterWikidata Q1042125 ↗ULAN 500125761 ↗Museum works 13

Also known as Baisha daoren, Baisha Daoren, Dongyuan Sheng hao Xinluo Shanren, Ch'iu-yüeh Hua, Desong, Desong Hua, Desong zi Qiuyue, Dongyuan Sheng, Dongyuansheng and 4 other name forms

Works in museum collections

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Hua Yan, Album of Landscape Painting Illustrating Old Poems — **Album of Landscape Painting Illustrating Old Poems**1745
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Hua Yan, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — Cleveland Museum of Art

Hua Yan, Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Scholar under a Pine Tree — **Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Scholar under a Pine Tree**1745
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Hua Yan, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — Cleveland Museum of Art

Hua Yan, Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Scholar at a Table with a Servant aside Preparing the Ink — **Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: A Scholar at a Table with a Servant aside Preparing the Ink**1745
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Hua Yan, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — Cleveland Museum of Art

Hua Yan, Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Listening to the Qin — **Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Listening to the Qin**1745
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Hua Yan, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — Cleveland Museum of Art

Hua Yan, Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo — **Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Boy Tending a Water Buffalo**1745
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Hua Yan, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — Cleveland Museum of Art

Hua Yan, Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Three Big Trees, a Stream with an Old Man Sitting on the Bank — **Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Three Big Trees, a Stream with an Old Man Sitting on the Bank**1745
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Cleveland Museum of Art

Hua Yan, Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence — **Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Man with a Staff Admires Chrysanthemums at a Fence**1745
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Cleveland Museum of Art

Hua Yan, Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Scholar watching Fish — **Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Scholar watching Fish**1745
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Hua Yan, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — Cleveland Museum of Art

Hua Yan, Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man — **Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man**1705 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of various donors by exchange — Open Access (CC0)

Hua Yan, Conversation in Autumn — **Conversation in Autumn**1732 · Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund — Open Access (CC0)

Hua Yan, Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Children Playing Blindman's Buff in a Garden — **Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Children Playing Blindman's Buff in a Garden**1745 · Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund — …

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), The Met Open Access (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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Works in museum collections

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